Une économie en dent de scie

Une économie en dents de scie, se sont trois reportages de Louis Lessard journaliste à Radio Canada. Les reportages nous montrent un portrait de la crise actuelle et nous donnent un aperçu des efforts pour se sortir de cette crise.

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Le Nord de l’Ontario est depuis toujours gouverné comme une colonie sous un contrôle politique énormément centralisé. Lorsqu’une région ressource comme la nôtre fleurit économiquement et que les gens travaillent, le peuple est endormi par un confort artificiel. Lorsque l’on déstabilise ce style de vie, le sentiment d’impuissance s’installe et c’est le début de la dévitalisation des régions. L’incapacité de pouvoir se réinventer nous force à réagir et nous tourner vers le contrôle colonial afin qu’eux nous sortent du pétrin. Mais que faut-il faire? Dans le reportage Louise Bouchard fait nuance à la diversification de l’économie du Nord dans des secteurs non traditionnels, en effet pour se sortir du bois il faut peut être sortir du bois…

More bioenergy than oil in Sweden

Newly published energy statistics for 2009 show that bioenergy today makes up a larger share of Sweden’s energy use than oil: 31.7 percent bioenergy compared to 30.8 oil. These numbers confirm that Sweden is a world leader in the field of bioenergy. Biomass is used for heat and electricity, for biofuels for transport, and as energy source in industry. Almost all Swedish cities and towns have district heating using biomass as fuel. All of these applications can be seen on study tours and excursions at World Bioenergy 2010 at the end of this month.

The numbers are based on preliminary statistics from the Swedish Energy Agency and were presented by Svebio – the Swedish Bioenergy Association. The final energy use includes all sectors of the Swedish society: industry, transport, residential, services, etc.

Svebios analyses also shows that the total share of renewable energy, using the definition in EU:s renewable energy directive (RED), was 46.3 percent in 2009. This is well ahead of the EU target trajectory, and only 3.7 percent short of the EU target for Sweden of 49 percent in 2020. The major renewable energy source beside bioenergy is hydropower. Wind power is still a relatively small contributor to the energy supply.

The main reason for the fast increase of renewable energy in recent years is the steady growth of bioenergy use. Biomass is the primary energy source in the district heating sector, which supplies more than half of the total heat demand in the residential sector. The use of by-products and residues in the forest industry is another major component. Bioelectricity has expanded both with combined heat and power plants in district heating and in the forest industry. Pellets and fuelwood play a major role in heating of single homes. Finally, more than 5 percent of transport fuels are biofuels – ethanol, biodiesel and biogas. In all, the Swedish bioenergy business sector is in a phase of strong expansion, which is confirmed by the statistics.